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David Dodge ever catch any of those poor fugitives*]
lifter the slaves had departed, [he pulled in his line, wrapped it around his pole, and. strolled up the creek j saying • . . ''Some of them * 11 be apt to land at [Mount J Parnell to-night and !{ d better be on hand."
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Lp. 19J When the travel above described ar¬ rived at the hotel in the village Lof aercersburgj, he found people standing in groups in the streets and in the public square, greatly agitated over the arrival of the men ''from, over the border'* in search of the runaway slaves. ....
As he passed on into the hotel he heard the slav¬ ers in the bar-room talking loudly and planning further pursuit of the fugitives. .....
ip. 20] . « .he overheard so,me one sb.j that there was an old man, by the naine of John Smith, ?/ho had recently been seen prowling around in the mountains and he was supposed to be running an underground railroad for fugitive slaves. . L The traveler] . registered Ms name as "John Hawkins^' LHe ?/as really old Jotm Brown. J . . a young fello?/ of striking appearance Lcairie in] and told the cleric ho\Y, hj the clever ruse of a yoimg girl, the slave o\n?ners had been thrown off the trail of the negroes at the mill. [The slave hunters came from the bar room and said

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David Dodge ever catch any of those poor fugitives*]
lifter the slaves had departed, [he pulled in his line, wrapped it around his pole, and. strolled up the creek j saying • . . ''Some of them * 11 be apt to land at [Mount J Parnell to-night and !{ d better be on hand."
i^ .;;. ^ 4(- ^^
Lp. 19J When the travel above described ar¬ rived at the hotel in the village Lof aercersburgj, he found people standing in groups in the streets and in the public square, greatly agitated over the arrival of the men ''from, over the border'* in search of the runaway slaves. ....
As he passed on into the hotel he heard the slav¬ ers in the bar-room talking loudly and planning further pursuit of the fugitives. .....
ip. 20] . « .he overheard so,me one sb.j that there was an old man, by the naine of John Smith, ?/ho had recently been seen prowling around in the mountains and he was supposed to be running an underground railroad for fugitive slaves. . L The traveler] . registered Ms name as "John Hawkins^' LHe ?/as really old Jotm Brown. J . . a young fello?/ of striking appearance Lcairie in] and told the cleric ho\Y, hj the clever ruse of a yoimg girl, the slave o\n?ners had been thrown off the trail of the negroes at the mill. [The slave hunters came from the bar room and said